Word: persia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simple story known to every unintelligent schoolboy. Very little exists beyond the bare bones of the legend. It will take 90 minutes. That means a whole lot of me ringue." Producer Richard (Cinderella} Lewine spooned up $350,000 worth of meringue, enough to satisfy all the princes of Persia - and give viewers indigestion...
...Persia's great poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), wrote of the union of the soul with God, its banishment to the world, and the impossibility of putting into words directions for finding the way back. But words were not all the great Rumi had; he taught his followers a way to dance themselves into a state of mystical union with the Divine. They became the famed sect of Mevlevi dervishes, who carried on their mystical method for seven centuries in monasteries throughout the Middle East. Known as the whirling dervishes, they are popularly confused with the Rifais...
...crowded but unhurried as a Bruegel canvas, Historian Durant shows the life and customs, major sins and minor pastimes of his period, stopping along the way to sketch in a thousand odd facts and arresting faces. The volume ranges over the whole of Europe (with major side trips to Persia, Russia and the New World), from 1300 to 1564 A.D. There is a bit of everything in the book-politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third of the book to the forces...
...streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept in by the Queen of Persia. "Too soft," he snapped. That night he rushed through a splendiferous eight-course dinner in just 30 minutes, and all his 60 guests had to leave the table when he did, finished...
This Elizabethan description of nomadic Persians (from Hakluyt's Principal Voyages) would have been accurate in the time of Herodotus (circa 484-425 B.C.) and was still accurate in A.D. 1926, when Persia's modern-minded Reza Shah Pahlavi began his reign, set about freeing the women of their veils, ordered the men into Western suits and decided that nomadic existence was "a blot on his progressive country." Harried by the Shah's troops, the nomadic tribes "settled," but in 1941, when Reza was forced to abdicate after the Allies moved into Persia, the tribes went back...